Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindley (Q2865)

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Madia elegans is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Madia
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Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindley
Madia elegans is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Madia

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    taxon/id/Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindley
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    Madia elegans D. Don ex Lindley
    Madia elegans
    D. Don ex Lindley
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 21: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 8: Asteraceae, part 3. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    common madia (English)
    showy tarweed (English)
    autumn showy tarweed (English)
    Common madia (English)
    1 reference
    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    Mexico (Baja California)
    Flowering Apr–Nov.
    grasslands
    meadows
    open sites
    shrublands
    woodlands
    forests
    disturbed sites
    coarse
    clayey soils
    Plants 6–250 cm, self-incompatible (heads showy).
    Stems proximally villous to hirsute, distally glandular-pubescent, glands yellowish, purple, or black, lateral branches sometimes surpassing main-stems.
    Leaf-blades lanceolate to linear, 3–20 cm × 2–20 mm.
    Heads in open, corymbiform arrays.
    Involucres ± globose to campanulate, 4.5–12 mm.
    Phyllaries ± hirsute or villous, usually glandular-pubescent as well, glands yellowish, purple, or black, apices erect or reflexed, flat.
    Paleae mostly persistent, mostly connate 1/2+ their lengths.
    Ray-florets (2–) 5–22;
    corollas bright-yellow (sometimes with maroon bases), laminae 4–20 mm.
    Disc-florets 25–80+, functionally staminate;
    corollas 2.5–5 mm, pubescent;
    anthers yellow to brownish or ± dark purple.
    Ray cypselae black or brown, sometimes mottled, dull, compressed or ± 3-angled (slightly rounded abaxially, angled 15–45° adaxially), beakless (or nearly so).
    Disc cypselae 0.2n = 16.